Conviction Quote by François-René de Chateaubriand Download Open image ““There is no power but in conviction.”” — François-René de Chateaubriand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conviction Faith Power
“Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace.” — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
“Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share
Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived.… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“[L]ike a kingfisher I have made my nest on the waves.” — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction. — Alex Smith Copy Share Image
I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. — Julia Child Copy Share Image